Friday, April 1, 2022

Hold the lines

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Queens Chronicle

A New York State judge struck down the recently agreed upon legislative maps Thursday afternoon, sending state lawmakers back to the drawing board. They have until April 11 to agree upon new maps, the ruling says; the previously approved maps are not to be used in the upcoming election cycle. 

This comes hours after legislators left Albany for the weekend, doing so without the state budget — which expires at midnight — approved. 

The maps just nixed by Acting Supreme Court Justice Patrick McAllister of Steuban County were the culmination of a drawn-out redistricting process following the 2020 Census. For the first time in its history, the state had given an Independent Redistricting Committee the task of drawing the lines; when the committee failed to reach an agreement, at the end of January, the Democrat-controlled Legislature took up the mantle as it had in years past.

The ruling includes the proposed maps for New York’s congressional, state Senate and Assembly districts.

Soon after that, Republicans filed a lawsuit challenging the lines, as many anticipated. Asked about a possible challenge at the time, state Sen. Mike Gianaris (D-Astoria), who has been on the front lines of the redistricting fight, told WNYC’s Brian Lehrer, “When the time comes, we’re confident we’ll make our case to the court and be successful.”

23 comments:

Anonymous said...

Thank goodness they had some sense to do this. We don't need anymore AOC "woke" assholes in ny.

Anonymous said...

Words like "free speech" and "democracy" don't mean the same things anymore.
The movie Enemy of the State provided a glimpse of what a tyrannical, technocratic government is able to do.

"You cannot vote Wall Street out because you have never voted them in."
― Chris Hedges

Anonymous said...

The DeMorat party is showing their true evil soul.
1936- 2022 the only difference is the uniforms, nothing has changed.

Anonymous said...

The Democraps have been an absolute disaster

Anonymous said...

Happy Biden day !

The Dems said...

It's not voter suppresion when we do it

Anonymous said...

Dear Joe Biden, stop sounding like AOC if you want to solve the oil crisis !

Anonymous said...

It's going to go to the appeals court, where all the judges were appointed by Democrats, so it's quite likely the unfair lines will remain.

Anonymous said...

All Reality Ignored by the Sheeple !

Anonymous said...

What's with the mask ?
​catch your B2 omicron now while you can lol...

Anonymous said...

Well at least NY judges aren’t as corrupt as red state judges and the right wing branch of the SCOTUS.

Anonymous said...

Democrats hate democracy.

Anonymous said...

The Groomer Party !

Anonymous said...

"Democrats hate democracy."

Says Putinist troll.

Anonymous said...

Durham Probe Indictments Imminent According to Kash Patel Using the Jake Sullivan Deposition.

Anonymous said...

Anonymous said...
"Democrats hate democracy."

Says Putinist troll.

Sunday, April 03, 2022

So says the one with Putin always dwelling in his mind.

Anonymous said...

I wouldn't mind the gerrymandering so much if NY had open primaries.

Zorba said...

Gianaris: a disgrace to the Greek-American community.

Anonymous said...

This guy is bad news - just think if Amazon would be in - his developer buddies from Astoria would be left out in the cold but the rest of us would have ridden out the storm with ease.

Once had had chat with him about support. He said my requst would have cost millions (it would not) and miffed, I responded "what doesn't these days". His aid stated to laugh at him.

He is a complete moron.

Anonymous said...

Yes Open Primaries ! And term limits for all electurds.

Anonymous said...

10% for the Big Guy said...
What a disgusting waist of taxpayer dollars. Our open border/Bail Reform/Big Tax/High Spending DemOrat government is out of control.

Anonymous said...

Frank Macchiarola as NYC redistricting chair in 1991 then as special NYS master in 1992 gave us some of the fairest lines thanks to his great sense of humor. Having served both Nelson Rockefeller and Ed Koch he remained friends with both parties. Isn't there any one to fill his shoes today?

Anonymous said...

Ok, here is one sound defense of gerrymandering. Firstly, the Constitution did indeed give us term limits via redistricting (as Garry Ackerman can attest). Secondly, Consider that in some newly developed nations, province, city and town lines are redrawn and renamed as a form of redistricting. And large cities elect several at-large representatives jointly instead of one per district. So redistricting has to be done some way. But we should utilise stochasting optimisation algorithms like BFGS optimisation of districts based on census and voting histories. But of course, voter history data is seriously sloppy and none of the voter records include census tract or full twelve digit zip code, let alone geocodes (longitutde and lattitud, available from google maps) to allow voters to provide competitive redistricting plans. Provide the data and software to everyone. Macchiarola let us go to the top of the Grace building and use the commissions own expensive software to device our districts competitively. Lastly, here is no objective plan. Objectivity is totalitarian. Only adversity and competition can provide a fair plan.